Science comics (First Second (Firm))

"From oddball inventors tinkering in their grages to global corporations, learn where cars came from and how they work. When you pop the hood, what are you looking at? How does gasoline--or an electric battery, or even steam--make a car move? Rev your motor and see how cars have impacted billions of people and the world around us. Vroom, vroom!"--Page 4 of cover

A young reader's introduction to where cars came from and how they work. Presented in comic book format

"In Dan Zettwoch's Science Comics: Cars, you'll learn where cars came from and how they work. When you pop the hood, what are you looking at? How does gasoline - or electric batteries, or even steam - make a car move? Rev up your motor and take look at the combustible history of the automobile and its explosive effects on our modern lives."--Provided by publisher

Intake : prehistory of cars -- Compression : putting it all together -- Power : explosive growth -- Exhaust : cars and our environment -- Glossary